The Serpentine Gallery is proud to announce that Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei will create the 2012 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion. It will be the twelfth commission in the Gallery's annual series, the world's first and most ambitious architectural programme of its kind.

The Pavilion's interior will be clad in cork, a sustainable building material chosen for its unique qualities and to echo the excavated earth.

*excavate
掘る、掘り返す
to dig in the ground to look for old buildings or objects that have been buried for a long time; to find something by digging in this way
*excavate something
Ex.The site has been excavated by archaeologists.

6:33PM BST 19 Jun 2011 TelegraphBrian HawBrian Haw, who died on June 18 aged 62, became famous when he set up home in a tent in Parliament Square in a quixotic peace vigil and, despite heavy-handed efforts by the authorities to silence him, he remained there until last March.

Dozens of works of art have been commissioned over the past four years for the 2012 Olympic Games in London, including 26 pieces in the Olympic Park itself. Jurassic Stones (pictured) is made of 16 boulders elevated on steel plinths in a pond, and is located on a roundabout in Weymouth, Dorset on the way to the Olympic sailing venues. Formed around 160 million years ago in what was then a tropical lagoon, each stone weighs between two and nine tons. The boulders were uncovered when a nearby road was being built in 2009, and British artist Richard Harris created the £335,000 sculpture in 2012 to celebrate the area’s prehistoric past. (Jim Wileman)

“The Sorrowful 27 Club”
I’d like to write about the 27 club.
Amy Winehouse (1983-2011) was a gifted young singer in the UK.
But she, too, ended up joining the Club of 27, a group of prominent musicians who all died at age of 27. Who knows about such a poignant club in the world?
In my own case, I found out about it after her death.
There is an impressive lineup of celebrities in it from Brian Jones, Rolling Stones to Kurt Cobain, Nirvana. Is it a badge of honor to join such a club? When Cobain blew his head off using a gun in 1994, I felt really sad and I didn't want to accept what he had done.
Why did Winehouse want to dive headfirst into the same club? Only she can answer that...(sb)

When “Yayoi Kusama,” a major traveling retrospective, opens on Thursday at the Whitney Museum, visitors can also dress to blend in with the work. Kusama has a new line of clothing and accessories, in collaboration with Louis Vuitton, including dresses, pants, tops, scarves, bags, shoes, sunglasses and a watch, all in her now widely recognized signature dots.

Twelve people were killed and 59 were injured in Aurora, Colo., during a sold-out midnight premier of the new Batman movie "The Dark Knight Rises" when 24-year-old James Holmes unloaded four weapons' full of ammunition into the unsuspecting crowd.

We will do everything that we can to support the people of Aurora in this extraordinarily difficult time. As we do when confronted by moments of darkness and challenge, we must now come together as one American family,” said Obama in a statement.

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Lone Wolf Killer 単独殺人犯
Lone Wolf 独りで行動する人、孤立主義者
*lone- (synonym "solitary")
without any other people or things
Ex.)The attack was carried out by a lone gunman in a crowded shopping center.
apprehend 捕まえる、逮捕する、取り押さえる
*apprehend someone
(of the police) to catch someone and arrest them
Ex.)The police apprehended an armed suspect near the scene of the crime.

*withdraw 辞める 退会する 引き下がる 退場する
(synonym=pull out)
to move back or away from a place or situation; to make someone or something do this
Ex.) Government troops were forced to withdraw.
withdraw (someone/something) (from something)
Ex.) Both powers withdrew their forces from the region.
(OAD)